Sentences with phrase «years of declining budgets»

To offset years of declining budgets and keep Dutch science competitive, the scientific community had been lobbying for a hefty boost in science spending; instead, the new budget contained a very modest increase.

Trump emphasizes the need to restore US military power after years of declining budgets.

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Elliott declined to comment on Express's revenue numbers, users, or its budget (the latter of which Recode reported as $ 500 million per year in 2014).

So, after a multi-year decline in Canadian venture capital funding — hitting a low of just $ 1 billion in 2009, despite US$ 132 billion invested by venture capitalists south of the border over the past five years — the March budget finally screamed an end to business as usual.

Legislators in a handful of oil - rich states are struggling to do the seemingly impossible as the 2016 fiscal year draws to a close this week: balancing their budgets, as required by law, despite massive declines in revenues due to falling oil prices.

It took some painful cuts and some reorganization of state agencies to balance the budget, and Texas is one of only seven states — mostly oil - producing ones — that saw revenues decline last year, according to the National Association of State Budget Offbudget, and Texas is one of only seven states — mostly oil - producing ones — that saw revenues decline last year, according to the National Association of State Budget OffBudget Officers.

Yet BC Housing's budgets for public, non-profit and co-operative housing will receive a slight bump for 2008 - 2009 before declining again in each of the two following years.

With the price of oil declining to the mid - $ 70 range and next year's budget being prepared, Jonathan Teghtmeyer has shared 9 ways that Alberta could better manage our resources.

Sensitivity analysis presented in the budget shows that the budget impact of a decline of 1 per cent of real GDP would be an increase in the deficit of about $ 5 billion per year.

The 2017 Budget forecast a decline of 5.1 % for the year as a whole.

While Budget 2018 - 19 does forecast a decline in the debt - to - GDP ratio over the next five years, the decline is entirely the result of economic growth, as government debt will continue to grow for the next five years due to deficit spending though at least 2022 - 23.

Employment insurance premium contributions declined $ 1.0 billion or 11.3 %, reflecting the decline in premium rates for 2017, compared to a decline of 4.9 % forecast in the 2017 Budget for the year as a whole.

for the year as a whole Other transfers to business, students, aboriginals, farmers, etc. declined by $ 463 million -LRB--2.0 %), primarily due to the inclusion of disaster assistance liabilities during the first half of 2016 - 17 and the timing of recent budget initiatives.

In the latest budget, a decline of $ 1.7 billion is projected, primarily reflecting extraordinary tax payments made in the end - of - year accounting period in 2015 - 16 reflecting tax planning in advance of the introduction of the high - income tax bracket for taxation year 2016.

At the long end of the yield curve, sentiment began to improve noticeably a year ago, reflecting the decline in the Budget deficit and the improvement in inflation.

While Amazon has steadily increased its global ad budget to 3.7 % of total sales in the last nine years, the majority of its brick - and - mortar competitors now devote a smaller percentage of their declining annual sales to advertising.

Ten certified teaching positions will be cut at the end of the school year at Glen Ellyn Community Consolidated School District 89 due to budget constraints and declining enrollment officials said.

Bremer and museum board Treasurer Norman Smalley both said the deficit in this year's operating budget is not serious enough to warrant drastic action, though both men also declined to disclose the amount of the deficit or of the budget.

Despite the rhetoric of President Obama's «pivot,» U.S. Army and Marine Corps forces in the region will merely be restored to pre-Iraq-war levels — no new permanent deployments are being contemplated — while the overall U.S. defense budget is set to decline by $ 487 billion over the next 10 years.

The subway system's decline has had an appreciable effect on the city's economy — a study by the Independent Budget Office last fall found that the constant delays cost residents about $ 864,000 per day in lost wages, and a study by Comptroller Scott Stringer's office noted that the figure could add up to $ 389 million per year if the transit system is not brought into a state of good repair.

The chancellor, George Osborne, certainly plans more austerity, hoping to achieve a budget surplus and a rapidly declining debt - to - GDP ratio by the end of the decade (four years later than he originally predicted).

He said the decline is actually part of a larger trend, and that Cuomo's budget division already has projected tax collections for the new budget year will be lower than previously expected, by about $ 1.5 billion.

The operating expenses of city departments will decline $ 4.1 million, or 3.1 percent, from this year's level, said Mary Vossler, budget director.

The Division of Budget estimates future surplus to range from $ 533 million in the next fiscal year, then declined to $ 114 million and finally increasing to $ 949 million in the 2019 - 20 fiscal year.

First, the Division of the Budget's (DOB's) authorization to craft a plan if federal Medicaid funding or all other federal aid declines by at least $ 850 million is extended for two more fiscal years.

Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch, whose NY Uprising PAC dubbed lawmakers «enemies» of reform if they declined to sign his redistricting, budget and ethics reform pledges last year; former AG Bob Abrams, Dr. Calvin O. Butts, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and president of SUNY Old Westbury, The Daily Beast and CNN contributor John Avlon (who also heads up the nonpartisan group «No Labels» with which Mayor Bloomberg is affiliated), Asian - American advocate Grace Lyu - Volckhausen, and Hispanic Federation President Lillian Rodríguez López.

Labour believes health will be a key electoral issue as voters start to worry less about the economy and more about the NHS as it begins to suffer from the coalition's structural shakeup, declining staff morale after years of frozen pay and a budget not increasing fast enough to cope with the ageing population.

Testimony includes: recommendations for the 2014 - 2015 state fiscal year; review of actual and proposed reductions in human services spending; use of federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funding in the 2014 - 2015 Executive Budget; and, the impact of decline in the purchasing power of the monthly cash assistance grant.

The vast majority of school district budgets were approved by voters in New York on Tuesday, but it's actually a decline from last year.

But the mayor dismissed the idea that the plot could be an argument in favor of hiring 1,000 more police officers — something the City Council has been proposing since last year but the mayor has so far declined to include in his budget.

Skelos, who makes over $ 100,000 a year in income from a private law firm, declined to name his clients, but says greater disclosure of law clients is part of the budget talks.

Michal Chubak, the chief financial officer of the agency, said at a City Council budget hearing Tuesday that the years - long decline in bus riders is partly to blame on improvements to subways around the city.

But the borrowing plan in his 2016 - 17 budget proposal now being negotiated with the State Legislature is a turnaround after five years of declining debt in New York, which has long been one of the most heavily indebted states per capita in the nation.

He says the decline is actually part of a larger trend, and that Governor Cuomo's budget division's projected tax collections for the new budget year will be lower than previously expected, by around $ 1.5 billion.

Lawmakers and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy are close to a deal to take $ 350 million out of the state's $ 20 billion spending plan for this fiscal year, a package that will include general cuts in the bureaucracy, maybe a few budget tricks and declining state employee rolls.

For example, although funding for NIH was expected to decline in past budget plans, appropriators rearranged priorities to give NIH significant increases in each of the past three years.

Observe, for instance, that while discretionary spending was declining from 38.1 percent to 30.9 percent of the federal budget in the Obama years, mandatory spending grew from 53.5 percent to 62.9 percent, according to White House Office of Management and Budgetbudget in the Obama years, mandatory spending grew from 53.5 percent to 62.9 percent, according to White House Office of Management and BudgetBudget data.

Indicators shows that Federal investment in both academic and business sector R&D has declined in recent years, reflecting the effects of the end of the investments of ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), the advent of the Budget Control Act, and increased pressure on the discretionary portion of the federal bBudget Control Act, and increased pressure on the discretionary portion of the federal budgetbudget.

And it is yet another blow on top of a decade of declining budgets for the $ 29 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH) and last year's 5.5 % cut due to across - the - board cuts known as sequestration, they added.

Critics and industry insiders alike have lamented for years the decline of modestly budgeted movies aimed at grownups, the sort of film that was once the backbone of Hollywood.

The Museum School is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership schools — which include a school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teachers.

Thus, the 7 percent decline in total operating revenues in fiscal year 2012 fell heavily on a small portion of the overall budget.

The average ICT budget for a primary school is forecast to be # 13,800 in 2017/18 and # 58,230 for secondaries, a year - on - year decline of 4 per cent and 7 per cent respectively.

The health of state budgets continued to decline for the third straight year and year - end balances are expected to near rock bottom, according to a report issued last week by the National Governors» Association and the National Association of State Budget Officers.

First, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 injected funds to insulate district budgets from recessionary cuts for a year, so national per - pupil spending didn't decline sharply until 2010.

On top of the turnover in leadership, the district is grappling with the need to close or consolidate schools given declining enrollment while juggling a $ 30 million budget shortfall over the next year.

These efforts have paid off in stable enrollments and budgets, after several years of decline.

Darling - Hammond said some of the enrollment declines are related to years of teacher layoffs due to the state's budget crisis.

The declining enrollment and several successive years of budget deficits has necessitated school closings and a wholesale redrawing of attendance boundaries as MPS seeks to focus its resources.

If the Education Savings Account (ESA) program proposed in Senate Bill 193 becomes law, school district operating budgets can be expected to decline on average by a mere 0.14 percent in the program's first year, leaving districts with 99.86 percent of their operating budgets intact, based on the performance of school choice programs in other states.